Buy
NZD / USD
Status Entry Price Stop Loss Profit Target Closing price
Closed 0.6987 0.6987 0.7100 0.6987

This trade was executed according to Trading Plan.

Potential trade area ?

Save for the industrial production report, economic figures from China were on the upbeat side (as usual!) with retail sales growing by an impressive 22.1% year-over-year in February. Price levels were also rising, evidenced by the 2.7% increase in CPI and the 5.4% jump in PPI. This could bode well for export-dependent, commodity-based economies, such as New Zealand.

Entry trigger ?

I noticed that there was resistance turned support at the pair's bottom daily ATR. This lines up with the 50% Fibonacci retracement and the price is currently sitting there so I just decided to enter at market.

Trade management ?

I set my stop below the 61.8% Fib and my profit target at the previous day high of 0.7100.

05:54 on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 | Views: 24 |

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Comments

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Go to Kei's profile Kei C. updated the trade at 12:15 on Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Before

Pending

Entry Price 0.6987

Stop Loss 0.6940

Profit Target 0.7100

After

Open

Entry Price 0.6987

Stop Loss 0.6940

Profit Target 0.7100

Go to kie's profile kie wrote at 12:28 on Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Today we have an almost opposite trade! hehehe.

Go to Kei's profile Kei C. wrote at 15:57 on Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Yikes! Haha :)

Go to Kei's profile Kei C. wrote at 15:57 on Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Now, I'm scared, haha. But I shorted GBPUSD though...

Go to Kei's profile Kei C. updated the trade at 14:46 on Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Before

Open

Entry Price 0.6987

Stop Loss 0.6940

Profit Target 0.7100

After

Open

Entry Price 0.6987

Stop Loss 0.6987

Profit Target 0.7100

Moved stop to entry ahead of tonight's US retail sales report.

Go to Kei's profile Kei C. updated the trade at 05:54 on Tue, 16 Mar 2010

Before

Open

Entry Price 0.6987

Stop Loss 0.6987

Profit Target 0.7100

After

Closed

Entry Price 0.6987

Stop Loss 0.6987

Profit Target 0.7100

Trade Recap

Go to Kei's profile Kei C. closed the trade 6 months ago

Did everything go as planned?

The pair just ranged after bouncing from the 0.6990 area.

What can you improve and what specific steps will you take for improvement?

I think I held on to this trade too long. As a result, I got stopped out at my entry point. Maybe I shouldn't have moved my stop to entry?

Did you execute your trade according to your Trading Plan?

Yes I did.

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